Call For Papers (in pdf and txt)

NOSSDAV 2011 is the 21st anniversary of SIGMM's leading workshop on network and operating systems support for digital audio and video. The workshop, hosted at the University of British Columbia (UBC), will continue to focus on emerging research topics, controversial ideas, and future research directions in the area of multimedia systems research.

As in previous years, we will maintain the focused single-track format a setting that stimulates lively discussions among the senior and junior participants. NOSSDAV encourages experimental research based on real systems and real data sets. Public availability of the source code and data sets discussed in papers presented at NOSSDAV is highly encouraged.

For NOSSDAV 2011, we will accept papers on broad ranges of topics related to the transmission and presentation of digital audio/video objects. We are particularly interested in soliciting articles that discuss system-level support for distributed social media, as well as papers that focus on enabling multimedia applications in distributed cloud. Other topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):

• OS, middleware and network support
• Overlay networks
• Media streaming, distribution and storage support
• Web 2.0 systems and social networks
• Media sensor and ad hoc networks / Embedded systems
• Multicore architecture support
• Wireless and mobile multimedia systems / Network processor support
• Networked GPU’s, graphics and virtual environments
• Networked games / Real-time immersive systems
• Multimedia communications and system security
• Grid/Cloud computing support

Please contact the workshop co-chairs to check if your topic is within the scope of NOSSDAV. Papers will be judged on their relevance, technical content and correctness, and the clarity of presentation of the research. Papers should not be under review at another venue nor previously published elsewhere.

Submissions should be at most SIX pages, using standard double-column ACM proceedings style. We expect these submissions to be the kernel of what will eventually lead to full-length papers at high-quality conferences or journals.

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